Why? Apple advertises the easy native installation of Windows on Macs as a feature. So the hypothetic poster is not doing something 'bad'.
And because it's an Air, he had Leopard from the start, so he is entitled to use the 29.- version.
What's wrong with you....
Isn't it amazing how a new account 'suddenly' appears when another person is challenged.
Can anyone say 'sock puppet'?
Hey did anyone who ordered 10.6 through the Up-to-date program have their shipment status change?
MAC OS X 10.6 SNOW LEOPARD RETAIL-INT
Ships: Delivers on Aug 28th
MAC OS X10.6 SNOWLEOPARD UTD FULLFIL-INT
Ships: September
when on friday will these be available at the apple stores ? if i remeber correctly, leopard went on sale at 6pm.
I have had my account for a year or more... I rarely post, but today...
Honor system. Some people do take pride in only using legal software, that is, software that has been properly licensed.
Using wrongly licensed software = stealing.
Then "he" should have at least been civil. As opposed to argumentative. That is what "he" should have done.
"He" will learn the answer to "his" question at the same time we all will.
And, nothing is wrong with me, thanks for asking, though. How are you/him?
VAT + Import Duty. Usually it's approximately 24% all in.
Which would be $35, or at the current exchange rate, £22.
So you could argue that they are overcharging by £3. But they'll argue that they have to ship it into the UK, pay other transit and handling fees, and so on.
In the bad old days you'd be paying £29, in the usual $=£ scam.
With all the comments that you must have Leopard installed to install the Snow Leopard Upgrade, we are mostly making assumptions. We do not know for sure that we need to have Leopard installed, and it seems odd that you would not have an option for a clean install and erase, that would mean that everyone who buys SL would never be able to totally recover easily from a total system meltdown if everything got corrupted and they wanted to start fresh.
I have had software in the past that when you installed an upgrade to it, it wants you to insert the original CD at least momentarily to verify that you are eligible for upgrade. I am wondering if Snow Leopard will be the same. Maybe we can do a clean install but at the start of the install process it will ask us to validate that we own a full version of Leopard by inserting the Leopard CD, seems to make sense?
no it doesnt, you cleanly install leopard, then straight after cleanly install the update.
It helps prevent piracy.
Can anyone confirm if I can do an Erase and Install (clean install) from Leopard to Snow Leopard with the $29 upgrade disc? I just contacted Apple Customer Service via online chat, and they said that I couldn't, which I find hard to believe. Doesn't it just validate that you have 10.5 already installed when you put the disc in?
I guess I could do a clean install of 10.5 and then go for a straight upgrade to 10.6 afterwards, but how ugly is that?
Mine said that too, but after I ordered my order acknowledgment e-mail said priority overnight shipping by 3 p.m. on Friday.
Update: Looks like the order I placed this morning is already "prepared for shipment."